I can't believe it.
I've become a food snob. I read labels. Critically.
I rarely go out to eat because I like cooking at home and I know exactly what I'm shoving down my pie hole. I love grilling out on the BBQ.
So why eat organic?
Public service announcement:
The fruits and vegetables that our parents ate when they were growing up were more nutritious than the conventional model of today. Organically grown fruits and vegetables are proving to have higher levels of antioxidants, vitamins and minerals than their conventionally grown counterparts.
A recent study backed up this claim.
The Biochemical Institute at the University of Texas, Austin, recently analyzed data gathered by the USDA in 1950 and 1999 on the nutrient content of 43 fruit and vegetable crops. Researchers found that 6 out of 13 nutrients had declined in these crops over the 49 year period (the seven other nutrients showed no significant, reliable changes). Three minerals, phosphorus, iron and calcium, declined between 9 and 16 percent. Protein declined 6 percent. Riboflavin declined 38 percent and ascorbic acid (a precursor of vitamin C) declined 15 percent.
And Beth reminded me that buying local organic is twice better. Hell yeah.
I also hear that a good multivitamin will help fill in the gaps.
Be Well. Eat well.
8 comments:
If you can, go see the movie Food, Inc. that is hitting theaters on Friday. It is good look at what has been happening to our food in America over the last 50 years.
Also, read In Defense of Food. Great book and lays out what you were just posting about.
Not good news...at all...
Love my broccoli-wish I could grow more of my own food. But one can't live on jalapeno peppers alone!
The real question is why am I (are we) ashamed of our food snobbery? I try to hide it at all costs from the normal folks eating their white tomatoes (genetically grafted with rat cells to create a tougher, more bruise-resistant skin), and russet potatoes that are technically classified as a pesticide, not a food? Why IS that? Why is it rude to be a food snob? Shouldn't it be rude to serve nutritionally-inferior foods to others?
I love the farm produce shipments we've been getting for the last few years. Yum!
Did you just say organic veg and bbq in the same sentence?!? Mmmm, bbq here is pork shoulder in the smoker for all day...that might just kill anything organic in your pie hole.
food snobber is the best kind. organic is good- and local can be even better!
i just read something that said when you get the choice (say, organic blueberries from chile or conventionally grown from 15 miles away)- go local. you're saving the environment too without all that transportation to bring the berries halfway around the world.
nice post- i like you're thoughts!
Beth.
you are so right.
LOCAL is so right.
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